Field works is slowing down a bit and i aim to learn more about digital photography this winter
Redbubble has some mind-blowing examples of using digital images in ways I never imagined. Thank you all for what you all do so very well! Your humble student, Dave Sandersfeld
AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL PROFESSIONAL "DO NO HARM!" MOTTO
I HAVE ALWAYS WRITTEN BUSH OFF AS A SIMPLE IDIOT; BUT A NEW BOOK POINTS OUT HE MAYBE BE AN IDIOT SPOKESMAN FOR A NEW WORLD ORDER?
Global Warming and the Disciples of the Anti-Christ
by Dan N. Brown, ed., ISBN: 1897318901, July 2006
Book description:
Humanity’s current reckless descent into self-destruction via Global Warming is being executed under the apparent auspices of elites w…
Snap shot of Oil-Global warming
Oil Price Rise Causes Global Shift in Wealth
Iran, Russia and Venezuela Feel the Benefits
By Steven Mufson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, November 10, 2007; A01
High oil prices are fueling one of the biggest transfers of wealth in history. Oil consumers are paying $4 billion to $5 billion more for crude oil every day than they did just five years ago, pumping more than $2 t…
Younger generations please read
YOUNG CITIZENS OF THE WORLD
In politics, it helps to have a long perspective to see long-term trends.
For example, here in America, I take you back to the turbulent presidential election of 1860.
Back then, the two prevalent political parties in America were the “Whigs” representing the Northern Wealthy industrialists and the “Democrats” representing wealthy Southern plantation owners …
Why environmental concerns are last in our government's mind
‘I’ll Sell My Soul to the Devil’
Corruption Scandals Involve Alaska’s Biggest Political Names
By Karl Vick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, November 12, 2007; A01
ANCHORAGE—When the FBI came looking for corruption in Alaska politics, it found an excellent perch in Suite 604 of the Baranof Hotel in Juneau, the state capital. There, a profane septuagenarian named Bill Allen di…
For our Leaders, Our Environment is a quiet lesson plan to respect!
Red Bubblers, ISLAM, Jewish and Christian traditions all accept and respect the Old Testaments of a King David and his Psalms written around 2000 B.C.
How our World leadership has become corrupt today defies logic?
However, our human & environmental concerns will never be a priority until our governmental leaders respect the fact – they did not make this world; so they have no right to exp…
World religious insight for Good vs. evil
We honored man by the gift of free will.
Half of him is honeybee, the other half snake.
True believers are stores of honey.
Stores of poison are those who do not believe.
-Rumi, “Mathnawi”
From “The Bounty of Allah,” translated by Aneela Khalid Arshed. Copyright 1999. All rights reserved. Used with permission of The Crossroad Publishing Company, New York.
Giant Bugs!
Scientists find fossil of super-sized bug
Sea scorpion, which measured 8 feet long, was once world’s biggest bug
By Thomas Wagner
The Associated Press
updated 5:21 p.m. PT, Tues., Nov. 20, 2007
LONDON – This was a bug that you’d have to look up to and definitely couldn’t step on.
British scientists have stumbled across a fossilized claw, part of an ancient sea scorpion, that is of such l…
Art, Nature or Nurture?
Sense of Beauty Partly Innate, Study Suggests
By Charles Q. Choi, Special to LiveScience
posted: 21 November 2007 09:32 am ET
Is art beautiful because we are taught so, or are notions of beauty hard-wired into the brain?
When people were shown pictures of sculptures in a new study, brain scans suggest they judged beauty by at least partly hard-wired standards.
Researchers in Italy showed…
Australia's biggest threat?
Climate shift is biggest security risk: Australia
From: Rob Taylor -Reuters
Published September 25, 2007 07:50 AM
CANBERRA (Reuters) – Climate change, not war or terrorism, will be the century’s biggest security challenge with China unlikely to be able to feed its vast and growing population as a result, Australia’s top policeman has warned.
With predictions climate shift could slash…
Thank you Benefactor unknown!
I awoke this morning to a Red Bubble email saying “I sold”!?
I sold the most bizarre photo of massive ocean carved rock with a small ocean bird dwarfed by these rock?
Something in this simple photo moved the buyer to own this photo? I’ll probably never now why; even though I am curious!
I thank the buyer profusely; as he rolled my profile over to a “sold work”! This is quite an honor for me …
Old Testament Prophecy - long time coming?
New Heavens, New Earth
Isaiah 65:17-25
The Glorious New Creation
For I am about to create new heavens
and a new earth;
the former things shall not be remembered
or come to mind.
But be glad and rejoice forever
in what I am creating;
for I am about to create Jerusalem as a joy,
and its people as a delight.
I will rejoice in Jerusalem,
and delight in my people;
no …
Congratulations Australia! Now goodbye bush in months!
Australia’s Labor sweeps to power
Conservative Howard ousted; policy changes on global warming, Iraq ahead
The Associated Press
updated 6:45 a.m. PT, Sat., Nov. 24, 2007
SYDNEY, Australia – Conservative Prime Minister John Howard suffered a humiliating defeat Saturday at the hands of the left-leaning opposition, whose leader has promised to immediately sign the Kyoto Protocol on global war…
Jellyfish invasion hits Japan and Ireland?
Jellyfish attack wipes out N.Ireland salmon farm
Thu Nov 22, 2007 7:49am EST
By Kevin Smith
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Jellyfish wiped out Northern Ireland’s only salmon farm, with more than 1 million pounds’ ($2.06 million) worth of stock massacred in the attack.
The jellyfish, covering an area of around 10 square miles , engulfed the Northern Salmon Company’s cages off the province’s northeastern…
Australia's bats aren't doing well in the new heat?
Temperature peaks killing off flying foxes
By Charles Clover, Environment Editor
Last Updated: 6:01pm GMT 27/11/2007
Scientists say that mass die-offs of Australian flying foxes, among the most dramatic recorded, show how the survival of whole species could be affected by climate change.
Roosting fruit bats
On Jan 12 2002, when temperatures exceeded 108ºF (42.9ºC) in New Sout…
Warning for Australians about their new push for "GM"
From:
Published November 30, 2007 08:25 AM
Abundant Evidence to Warn People Against GE Crops
Straight to the Source
1.There’s abundant evidence to warn people against GE crops
2.”GM Canola will be everywhere and that is inevitable” – expert
Announcements in Victoria and NSW that genetically engineered (GE) crops will be allowed threaten more than just the income of Australia’s fa…
Rain Gardens Concept
“Rain gardens” trap water pollution
Nov 29, 2007
LDB Solutions
By Robert Scheyer
Editor’s note: This article is an excerpt from an article that will appear in the January/February edition of Livescapes magazine.
Rain Gardens are curbside perennial plantings that trap what The Environmental Protection Agency calls “non-point source” water pollution. Non-point water pollution …
Article from HIGH COUNTRY NEWS!
Interior v. freedom of the press
Filed under: Public Lands, NewsBiz Buzz — Jodi Peterson at 10:57 am on Thursday, November 29, 2007
The Department of Interior recently proposed a new rule that would make it harder for journalists to report on actions affecting millions of acres of public land. Since 2000, Interior has been collecting fees for commercial movie-making in national parks and ref…
EARTH IS NOT VENUS with human help!
Venus ruined by greenhouse gases
Inferno of carbon dioxide … Venus may have been partially covered with water before it became doomed by global warming.
Photo: AP
• Copyright © 2007. The Sydney Morning Herald.
November 29, 2007
Inferno of carbon dioxide … Venus may have been partially covered with water before it became doomed by global warming.
Photo: AP
Latest related covera…
Australians take the lead!
Australia ratifies Kyoto Protocol
• Copyright © 2007. The Sydney Morning Herald.
December 3, 2007 – 4:28PM
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has signed the Kyoto Protocol.
Photo: Reuters
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American birds, 178 species, are in danger of disappearing
Flight risk: more of America’s birds are in danger
Some 178 species are endangered or in decline, new list says. That’s up 11 percent from five years ago.
By Mark Clayton | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
from the November 30, 2007 edition – http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1130/p02s01-usgn.html
With birds increasingly hammered by climate change, habitat loss, and a host of oth…
New Networks for Conservation Photographers 2007
New Networks for Conservation Photographers
More than just pretty pictures – these institutions promote the use of photography for conservation purposes.
Source: PopPhoto.com | December 5, 2007 | Breaking news from America’s top photo magazines
BY RODDY SCHEER
September 2007
© Jeremy Woodhouse/Wildlight Nature Photography
A Japanese macaque captured by NANPA’s Jeremy Woodhouse…
Interesting quote!
Do not treat people with contempt, nor walk insolently on the earth. Allah does not love the arrogant or the self-conceited boaster. Be modest in your bearing and subdue your voice, for the most unpleasant of voices is the braying of the ass.
-Luqman 31:18-19
From “The Bounty of Allah,” translated by Aneela Khalid Arshed. Copyright 1999. All rights reserved. Used with permission of The Cro…
Scientists are great at documenting a problem; but solutions?
I am very concerned too about obvious climate change. I have been working on projects in Alaska since 1970s and last year i saw the historic frozen tundra burning! The peat dried out and burned underground 10-feet to the sand layer?
However, everyone is beating each other up; but people are the basic, cumulative problem over all. However, This is a much narrow focus we all need to watch.
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New Cloud Type documented
Satellite Sheds Light on Brightest Clouds
By Andrea Thompson, LiveScience Staff Writer
posted: 11 December 2007 11:27 am ET
SAN FRANCISCO—Fifty miles above Earth’s North Pole shine the brightest clouds ever observed, and for the first time scientists have taken global-scale images of these so-called “clouds on the edge of space.”
These clouds, which form at very high altitudes over the pol…
Global warming scenario in fossit record 55 milliom years ago
55million old global warming
Climatic Chain Reaction Caused Runaway Greenhouse Effect 55 Million Years Ago
From: Utrecht University
Published December 26, 2007 10:55 AM
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